“I mean what I say and I try to say what I mean.”
Bowinn Ma (1985) Canadian politician
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“It means what it says.”
Said about Waiting for Godot, from Jonathan Croall, The Coming of Godot (2005) ISBN 1-840-02595-6, p. 91
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Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989Related quotes
“Say what you mean and mean what you say,
before the wall of water washes you away…”
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Robert Frost: A Backward Look, by Louis Untermeyer (1964), p. 18
1960s
James Jones book Whistle
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“It is impossible to say just what I mean!”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Context: It is impossible to say just what I mean!
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while If one, settling a
Pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all."
“It is so hard trying to say what you mean.”
Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire
Source: Rose Under Fire